“Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.”

“A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.”

“Love is an attempt to penetrate another being, but it can only be realized if the surrender is mutual.”

“We often hear it said that it is the task of art to express the inexpressible: it is contrary which must be said (with no intention of paradox): the whole task of art is to unexpress the expressible, to kidnap from the world's language, which is the poor and powerful language of the passion, another speech, an exact speech.”

“Since man is a moral being, his culture cannot be a-moral. Because man is a religious being, his culture, too, must be religiously oriented.”

“To accept the world as boring or accept oneself as boring? Which is really more agreeable? There's bound to be some amount of ambiguity and uncertainty.”